Image browser #2
2026: it's the machines' turn to help me with the scope of my project. Harder, better, stronger, faster.
Best in its class, as far as I can tell.
EIZO monitor control
2024: if you don't give me the software, I'll make my own! Reverse engineering a driver, then making frontends for it.
ML-tagged gallery
2023/2024: maintaining image collections is laborious. Let's make it my computer's problem to find all (even near) duplicates, figure out what's on the images, and let me browse through them sensibly.
Image browser #1
2021/2022: scratching a long-time itch with how inadequate all existing software felt to me, I connected the available parts in a new way.
This is a rabbit hole.
Personal WMS
2019: got myself a label printer, wrote a driver for it, and finally built a ‘stuff managament system’ on top of it, pretending I live in a warehouse.
Job queue system at Auto Kelly
2018: a supervisor daemon to run long-running jobs submitted by employees, controlled over WebSockets with an interactive frontend.
Directory navigator
2017/2018: getting sick of current terminal file managers, pursuing my own concept.
PDF invoices and receipts at Auto Kelly
2017/2018: made a typesetter based on Pango and Cairo, wrote code for PDF parsing, metadata modification and digital signing to postprocess the resulting documents, and converted existing dot matrix printing to the new format. Implemented a virtual Epson ESC/POS thermal printer for questionable reasons.
Hex viewer
2016/2017: finally I can see in binary. You have no idea how hard it is to debug generated blobs without this.
Brainfuck compiler
2016/2017: first remarkable steps in the direction of compilers. Hanging out with elves and dwarfs, killing our remaining brain cells.
MPD client
2016: could I copy this whole GUI application and paste it in a terminal while making it easy to control from the keyboard?
2022: on second thought, could I turn that back into a GUI?
IRC bundle
2014/2015: chatting with my IRC bot on my IRC network using my IRC client, sending it commands to evaluate expressions in my own scripting language. Exploration into the realm of event loops and customizable software.
2022: now with pretty frontends.
Dictionary viewer
2013: can I have PC Translator on Linux, and have it follow the current X11 selection? This is indespensable for reading text in foreign languages.
2022: now with a GTK+ version.
Schematic editor
2010/2011: thinking that I could pull off a moderately large multi-platform, extensible, internationalized GUI application in C, and halfway succeeding. I'm not sure how I did it anymore.
Graphical editor
2007: with the right tools, writing GUIs is easy. Combining someone's OOP BASIC interpreter with my own C graphics library for speed.